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The Playlist of My Life

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Soundtrack of My Life is a free service provided by Billboard.com that creates a playlist with a song associated with a milestone in your life. Your first kiss, the day you got your license, that one time when you were incarcerated…

You input a date for each of these moments and the service automatically creates a playlist containing songs that were at the top of the charts in that period. When your playlist is created, you can listen to a small preview of your songs. If you register to Billboard.com, you can also share your tracks on social media or embed a widget with your playlist on your site.

So, here is Mookie’s playlist, sans actual dates.

I figure it’s more fun if you try to figure out the timeline based on the song!

The Day Mookie Was Born
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover – Paul Simon

Great song…glad Dad didn’t leave Mom though…

Memorable First Kiss
Roll With It – Steve Winwood

I can’t remember her name, but I remember that this was the first kiss where I also got to second base. She was a beautiful dark-haired, olive-skinned girl who was far more mature than me at the time… even though we were the same age. If I knew then, what I know now…

First Drink
Justify My Love – Madonna
I am 100% confident that Madonna was not playing as I took my first unauthorized sip of the magic nectar. Alas, she marks the moment regardless.


Got My Drivers License
I’m Too Sexy – Right Said Fred
I failed it a few times before I finally passed. The second time I took it, I had a strong feeling that I had failed from the comment about not yielding at a red light right turn. My dad never came to a complete stop at right turn on a red light if it was safe to do so… So, when I saw some serious scribbling I decided it was time to give the examiner a crazy ride. I drove fast and took chances! I even skidded into the DMV parking lot. Needless to say my Dad just laughed when he looked at the examiner’s face after returning to the DMV. I passed with flying colors on the third time by the way.


Frist Cigarette
To Be With You – Mr. Big

Actually…I’m pretty sure I tried smoking before this point in my life…but it was around this time that I finally inhaled properly. I know because I attempted to cough out my left lung. Ah…that light-headed moment, my mind dizzy with a real dose of nicotine, is a moment that I suppose I regret today, since I still have the habit. I won’t smoke forever. I plan on quitting soon. I wanna be smoke-free by 35 at the latest. It gets harder the older you get. I know that for sure.

Graduate from High School
I Swear – All-4-One

[Download I Swear – All-4-One]

First time I kissed TLO?
London Bridge – Fergie
Fergie [ft. Marina] – “London Bridge (Bonde do Rolê A+B by Luminfire)” [Direct — Left Click Only]
Meeting TLO has definitely been monumental in my life. Not only is she hot and and great in bed, but she shares my love of music. This blog would not have been possible or successful without her. That night outside the bar, I remember her being unsteady and panting for a kiss… What a great moment. I wish we had a great song to mark it, but sadly…Fergie it is. She is hotter than the Ferg, in case you were wondering.

Went to Jail
The Sign – Ace of Base

I guess it WAS a sign. I was heading in all the wrong directions. My life was a mess. Well, I cleaned it up. Was a turning point though. No doubt. By the way…I suggest not giving the big black man a “phone check”. Things get tense after that.

Graduated College
Fallin’ – Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys is still hot right now. Maybe you have seen her at the VMAs with Jay-Z performing Empire State of Mind. She steals the thunder from Hova in this song in my opinion. It’s an amazing song, but would have fell flat with out her vocals in the mix.

[Download Jay-Z – Empire State of Mind (featuring Alicia Keys)]

First Day inALLcaps.com Goes Live
Lollipop – Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major
We are growing every day! The hits and page views continue to grow! The emails and comments keep coming in! We have a facebook page and two new sites! (videos.inallcaps.com and podcasts.inallcaps.com) We got a few requests to remove tracks but even more bands emailing us to thank us! It feels good. We still want to hear more from you though. What do you like and dislike? What do you want more of? Leave us a comment!


Today!
Pearl Jam – The Fixer
I would like today to be a milestone. This post. Although it’s not number one today, Pearl Jam’s latest single is number two! (1st is Alice in Chains – Check My Brain…and I just don’t think it’s that great of a song.) The song might be an Obama versus Bush song. The song might be a fuck you to the labels. (This album of PJ is released on its own label, MonkeyWrench Records). Whatever it is, it’s an upbeat rock song by one of my favorite bands! I just saw Pearl Jam at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival, and was very pleased. I even have a decent live recording of Animal from this show that I want to share! (What! Why not The Fixer? You can download it here from the blog tsururadio.com if you really must!

[Download Pearl Jam – Animal (Live @ Outside Lands 2009)]

I will always be better than before

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“You look like a loved kid,” the movie version of Jan Burres tells Alex McCandless in the movie Into The Wild, as she continues to try to get him to send some word to his family about his whereabouts and howabouts.

But Alex left that behind when he set out on his journey. Alex was an extremely intelligent kid whose headstrong ways often got him what others would consider negative results, however, he had his sights set on a goal that couldn’t be measured in a way the rest of society would understand.

Society
Crazy indeed
Hope you’re not lonely
Without me

Despite being hand-picked by Sean Penn to write the entire soundtrack for the movie because of their work on previous feature films, I would guess this story was still inspirational to Eddie Vedder. I imagine he felt a personal connection to such a soul who could walk away from the ivory towers worshiped by those around him, and possibly he has known characters who followed the call of the wild just like the young vagabond, which may have helped fuel the passion behind this album. Track 8, a Jerry Hannan cover, tries to capture part of the revulsion that turns people away from living with the mainstream.

[Download Eddie Vedder – Society]

“It was startling how easy it was for me to get into his head. I found it to be uncomfortable how easy it was, because I thought I’d grown up,” Vedder said in an interview promoting the movie.

It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation.

–Anthony Storr, in “Solitude: A Return to the Self”

Acknowledging that my point of view on the life of Eddie Vedder will be no less than ignorant, I will still observe that it seems to me he has found the barely tolerable level of isolation and rebellion against what the rest of us expect as well. Pearl Jam has sought after only the ability to make music, and has done as much as possible to boycott all else that is expected of a famous musician in our culture: the promotion, the music videos, and at one point any reasonable amount of touring due to the Ticketmaster boycott.

Don’t come closer or I’ll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you…

Everyone I come across in cages they bought
they think of me and my wandering
but I’m never what they thought
got my indignation but I’m pure in all my thoughts
I’m alive…

“Guaranteed” won several awards after the release of the movie.

[Download Eddie Vedder – Guaranteed]

But don’t label Vedder or McCandless as complete outcasts. The young adventurer left his mark on every single person he came across as he drove, hiked, canoed, hitchhiked, and jumped rails all over North America. Alex inspired an 80 year old man to leave his regimented life and follow the road. He found companionship and substitute families wherever he went. Once his death was reported, many of his fellow vagabonds came forward to create the story that first appeared as an article in “Outside” magazine, leading to the “Into The Wild” book, both written by Jon Krakauer, and finally to the widely-acclaimed screenplay, written and then directed by Sean Penn.

“I look around the audience, and there’s so many faces, and I’ve looked into the eyes of at least the ones I could see—there’s at least 1,000 faces—and I’ve communicated directly to them and seen where they’re coming from…One thing I don’t feel is separation from the crowd. I don’t feel like we’re speaking from a platform, I feel like we are communicating on the same level,” Eddie Vedder told The Rolling Stone in 2006.

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles. If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, -that is your success.

–Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Alex McCandless found his joy and his freedom, and he found peace as well. But to leave his family in a wake of excruciating pain and loss is a cruelty that Vedder declined to explore on this album. For someone who loves the earth and seeks peace, surely it is incongruous to then so savagely cause anguish to those who love you.

Be it no concern
Point of no return